Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic community. Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis for social behavior in every species; its practitioners believe that some-and perhaps much-of human behavior is genetically determined. It is not a message that many academics want to hear. Says Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionary biologist: "This is fundamentally a very conservative world view, which serves the very important function of saying that there is no sense in rocking the boat-we are what our genes make us-and I think that's bullshit." Lewontin is hardly alone. Marxist anthropologists criticize sociobiology as a rationale...
Harvard's Lewontin dismisses theories like these as "barroom generalizations." Indeed, sociobiologists seem prone to concoct theories to explain a wide array of human problems. Harvard Biologist Robert L. Trivers presented the convention with his sociobiological view of parent-child relationships. Conflict is built in, he said, because parents divide their genetic investment-and their attention-among their children; while each child has a 100% investment in itself and struggles for 100% of the parents' time...
...Nobel Prize-winning Harvard biologist withdrew his name from the sponsor list of an international revolutionary conference saying he feared the meeting "might be infiltrated with FBI and CIA agents...
...trucks, cars and buses clogged the roads to the adjoining island of Grande-Terre. Some residents were taken out by sea. And some others, participants in the Tour de Guadeloupe bicycle race, left on their bikes. "Most people didn't wait to pack," said Pierre Renaison, 52, a biologist. "They left with just the clothes on their backs...
...Colorado flood, the mysterious ailment that struck the American Legionnaires in Philadelphia-all suggest a more fundamental, and realistic, perspective. It would be banal to say that such demonstrations of nature's awesome force restore man's humility. Still, it is worth repeating the thesis of French Biologist Jacques Monod that events -and mostly the event of life itself-are profoundly random...